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Headquarters. Chicago, Illinois, U.S. Products. Clothing, footwear, bedding, furniture, jewelry, beauty products, electronics and housewares. Goldblatt's was an American chain of local discount stores that operated in Chicago, Illinois, as well as Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. Founded in 1914, the chain grew to more than twenty stores at its ...
State Street is a short street in the Financial District of Manhattan, New York City. It runs west from Whitehall Street as a continuation of Water Street, then turns north at Battery Park to become its eastern border. Passing Pearl and Bridge Streets, it terminates at the northeast corner of the park, at Bowling Green, where the roadway continues north as Broadway and west as Battery Place.
Wilko (and wilko.com) is a retail chain owned by The Range since 2023, prior to which it was owned by Wilko Limited, founded in the United Kingdom in 1930. The retail chain Wilko Limited [1] (formerly Wilkinson Cash Stores Limited, [citation needed] Wilkinson Hardware Stores Limited, [2] and Wilko Retail Limited [3]) was founded in Leicester by ...
QD Commercial Group Holdings Limited, trading as QD Stores is an independently owned discount retailer operating in the United Kingdom, primarily in East Anglia and the East Midlands regions. [3] Products stocked include a mixture of items for the home and garden, basic groceries and a range of clothing and footwear. The company also run Cherry Lane Garden Centres .
The Fair Store promoted itself as a discount department store in the early 1900s. In 1915, a booklet published by the store stated "The Fair Store is still, as it always has been and undoubtedly always will be, the store of the people, the down-town shopping center for the Savers, the market place for the Thrifty." In 1925 the business was sold to a syndicate headed by S.S. Kresge (predecessor ...
Juneteenth, officially Juneteenth National Independence Day, is a federal holiday in the United States. It is celebrated annually on June 19 to commemorate the ending of slavery in the United States. The holiday's name is a portmanteau of the words "June" and "nineteenth", as it was on June 19, 1865, when Major General Gordon Granger ordered the final enforcement of the Emancipation ...
Ernie is an orange Muppet character created and originally performed by Jim Henson for the children's television show Sesame Street. He and his roommate Bert form the comic duo Bert and Ernie, one of the program's centerpieces, with Ernie acting the role of the naïve troublemaker, and Bert the world-weary foil .
Read's Drug Store was a chain of stores based in Baltimore, Maryland. Read's Drug Store was founded by William Read. He sold it to the Nattans family in 1899. [1] The downtown store was constructed in 1934 by Smith & May, Baltimore architects also responsible for the Bank of America building at 10 Light St. [2] In 1929, one company slogan was "Run Right to Reads." [3] Read's was purchased from ...